#Monsterdon meanwhile, on Mount Olympus, a totally climbable mountain that the Greeks never _checked_ for gods
Respect the Harryhausen!
ohhh i forgot burgess meredith was in this (the penguin from the adam west batman tv show!) #monsterdon #scheduledMonsterdon
Some big names for #monsterdon
rear projection seagull is ONLY 90% THERE
zomg Maggie Smith! #monsterdon
*gasp* IT WAS THE SEAGULL! #monsterdon
A little shmeer of Schneer #Monsterdon
Itβs nice that the box was lined with padding and had pillows in it.
these guys all had brain worms
Worst cruise ever.
The 70s-80s sure loved some barren rocks and a smoke machine as shorthand for fantasy/scifi huh
#Monsterdon this is how they put the cat in schroedinger's box too
The gull has opinions
#Monsterdon And it begins! Get your bingo cards ready!
#monsterdon Bring out yer dead! What? I'm not dead yet! He looks it... better take him anywaysβ¦
Prepare for burial at sea. Proceed!
ROMANI ITE DOMUM
@jadebees It was slow, except when it was fast.
"What is your riddle?"
"Stuff about circles and shit"
"You mean this ring, on this dead hand?"
"Yes"
"Let's get married!"
'Ok"
Poseidon, picking up the phone: What's up, Z?
Zeus: Poseidon! What's Crack-a-lackin?
Poseidon: {long sigh}
Oh look. A drone. (Bubo the metal owl) #Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans1981
Saw all the best parts (the creature animation) in Starlog, back in the day. Turns out the actual acting was either under-represented (Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith) or pretty bad (Harry Hamlin). But still, it was fun to see the plot all laid out linearly. #Monsterdon
For anyone looking for more Greek Myth: I recommend Theia Mania by A Gnosis https://theiamania.thecomicseries.com/
(Tumblr at https://a-gnosis.tumblr.com/ )
Note: LOTS of content warnings for sex, sexual assault, incest, kidnapping, etc, pretty much anything you'd find in Greek myth.
It is a much more accurate take on the myths, but also HEAVILY adapted for 2020s storytelling; it is a Hades/Persephone love story, and both are VERY autistic.
Also: FOOTNOTES ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP!
@Newpa_Hasai Indeed, this movie was definitely not the kind of story many of us (including me) guessed it was
Dramatically slow untying of the gorgon bag resulting in being knocked off the pegasus. Perseus is really quite bad at keeping his weapons. #monsterdon
Hey, #Monsterdon gang, a thought: Medusa's head - even dead - can turn anything living into stone. And Perseus just tossed it into the sea ... where there are LIVING THINGS! The fish there ... stone. Anyone who goes diving/swimming ... stone. I mean, WTF, Perseus? He could have at least put it back in the makeshift bag. Talk about an environmental hazard.
Thanks for a lovely hang! Have a good night and happy Pride to those who are celebrating! :progresspride_i_flag: #Monsterdon
Scorpions were in this? Why didnβt they play Winds Of Change?? #Monsterdon
a LOT of you are picking "something else we forgot" but only one of you is suggesting what that is
c'mon team don't leave the rest of us hangin'
unless we all forgot including you, that's fair
@Louisa And Toby Stephens played Poseidon in a Percy Jackson film!
Kraken from the Black Lagoon!
I _knew_ a bunch of you were going with a song during the ferryman scene.
If they cut all the scenes saying "Release the Krackin!" then the movie's only 40 minutes long... #monsterdon
Another #Monsterdon in the can, and we go back to our own world, where petty, vain gods are apparently in some kind of feuding revenge spiral and Zeus forgot to call "no tag-backs".
Krakenhorns!
@arrjay to be fair everything is more recent than sharks
Thank you @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon
@Louisa toby was a man
he was a monster man
uh - he was just a monster
but he was still CALIBOOOOOS
mesmerizing the princess
terrorizing the countryside
terrorizing the polis
in their THATCH ROOF COTTAGES
I dare #monsterdon to get any better than this!! #ClashOftheTitans
that reminded me i've been meaning to see Making Love (1982) which was featured in The Celluloid Closet. It stars Harry Hamlin as a man who comes out as gay, leaves his wife, and has an apparently happy ending. rare for that era and honestly rare now for queer rep (honestly i don't care that people say it's boring. come on. we need this) #Monsterdon
@moira they could've cut like 30 minutes by walking faster and skipping the "repeat names in a significant whisper" lines though just saying #monsterdon
So many innocent fish were turned to stone that day #Monsterdon
Thanks for a fun one #Monsterdon I thought this one wouldn't be fun to pick at, but come on, they put a literal robot owl in there and I'm not sure if I've actually seen a dumber main character, rofl.
Thanks for a fine #monsterdon @Taweret
Now to dream of The Penguin telling Batman the tale.
@jammerb I feel like you could've checked off Skeletons and God Power Activated! #monsterdon
@blogdiva Yeah, I missed some of them too #monsterdon
Zeus you're next, dude. Step aside.
Good night Monsterdonation! You are the best... at what we do. Peace of the plucky Owltoo Detoo, and injectable donuts, for all.
@moira Pegasus but in reverse #monsterdon
Classic! #monsterdon
Yay! Wow that was fun. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans
#monsterdon Well, not really Zeus. You see, none of them will actually get there. See, there's something called a supernova explosion you see... the biggest ones make the best party favor bangs like that. Anyhow, kinda big words for a man with a prune problem huhβ¦
one of those critters was called Dos Kilos. #monsterdon
"the mythologicals as themselves"
credits just casually telling us all the monsters are real #monsterdon
And that was a great film, thanks for coming to #monsterdon everyone!
Special thanks to @Taweret and all of y'all for your great fun and cheering-on . Sometimes we deserve a great film, and tonight was one of those nights.
See you next week!
"the vain Cassiopeia"? She's only vain by proxy
#Monsterdon and I paid no attention to my Bingo card, because I legit still love this dumbass movie.
That was long, though. And I gotta get some sleep.
That was lots of fun, folks. I never regret Monsterdon. Love all y'all.
Owlbear out!
Great, now Buboβs screen is cracked, this is why you should always use an owl case #Monsterdon
@msh Gorgon blood is one of those forever chemicals like PFOA. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans
You heard Zeus. The ruling class is there because we allow it. Rise the fuck up. Love you Monsterdon. Good night! β
Ah yes. Perceus gets to creep Andromeda's bed from the sheets, forevermore. #Monsterdon
actually stars do fade tho #monsterdon
Is the playwright now narrating an epilogue?
Bubo has a broken leg and crutches #monsterdon
Just me or did they applaud more for the horse? #monsterdon
You just gonna toss the snakey head with the poison blood into the sea? Pretty environmentally irresponsible of you Perseus #Monsterdon
Ok I haven't seen this movie since I was twelve but I still love every cheesy inch of it.
Unless this movie is saying the Kraken is a Titan, which it is no where else. But the that is still a Clash Against One Titan.
#Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans
SlΕth #Monsterdon
well, Zeus got one thing right at least
Neither of these actors has ever actually hugged another human being. And the director wasn't able to explain it well enough.
#monsterdon Bubo is gonna nap. He's all bomb!
@Bluedepth Just like Aldi's #monsterdon
So we are at the Clashing part. But this movie doesn't have ant Titans. In Greek myths Titans are the parents of Zeus and the other gods. So long dead or imprisoned at this point.
#Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans
Also, convenient that the Kraken disintegrated, a giant stone monster overlooking your sacrificial stone would be awkward to explain.
@ohiofi throwing perseus into the sea worked so well for keeping him gone forever
I think Harryhausen recycled the monster from 20 Million Miles to Earth #Monsterdon
Everyoneβs cheering, even though, moments earlier, they were all, like, βThe gods demand this, so okay.β
Just fucked over a whole lot of fish there... #monsterdon
Did he accidentally throw the head in the water?
In olden times if you cut off a witches head it still had one stoning left in it. So you really had to be sure it was an emergency to use it. #monsterdon
Kraken gets turned to stone
More like STOPPED motion am I right
cough I said more like STOPβ
#Monsterdon my partner: He's *Kraken* up!
#Monsterdon now the fish are gonna get stoned
"I'll just throw this supernaturally dangerous thing into the ocean. I'm sure it won't come back to harm anyone I know."
Yeah, Boomers definitely made this movie. #Monsterdon
Well that was easy. #monsterdon
I would criticize the strength of that knot, but honestly, if I had something that could kill everything around me in a bag, I would tie a fucking good knot as well.
.....would probably a keep a knife handy for cutting the knot though!
And now all the fish get stoned.
#Monsterdon
You can stop aiming the head, now, dude.
close-up of the kraken's belly button for the freaks
#monsterdon Again, Bubo for the frikken WIN MAN! Carrying a terrible weapon! Here comes the dehydrator of the godsβ¦
kraken crumble
#Monsterdon
Do the medusa eyes charge with USB A or USB C? #Monsterdon
Behold! The largest seamonkey ever raised